Lazy Man's Ethics and Elliot Spitzer

Dear Skew,

Is Prostitution okay?

Let's look at this from the perspective of LME (Lazy Man's Ethics). LME morality says, "Prostitution is okay ... as long as you don't get caught!"

Clearly, Elliot Spitzer was an LME practitioner.


Does prostitution affect the family?

Again, LME morality says, "Prostitution is okay ... as long as you don't get caught!"


What about other forms of sexual immorality?

You mean like porn, strip clubs, and craigslist encounters? Here comes Pete and Repeat: LME morality says, "Prostitution is okay ... as long as you don't get caught!"

REAL morality says, "Families are destroyed by a spouse's infidelity. Children are given the wrong message and a poor example when a parent commits sexual sin."

I know ... I'm going against what I learned in public school by allowing the word "Sin" to appear in this blog in a moral context. I'll be sure to confess my allegiance to the party and denounce Goldstein real soon.

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Let me go into a related tangent -- there's no need to reinvent the wheel here. Family structures do not need to change in order to allow sexual immorality into the home.

The family structure needs integrity, and parents of integrity.

In case some of you have forgotten, here is the definition of integrity, from freedictionary.com:

in·teg·ri·ty
1. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.

2. The state of being unimpaired; soundness.

3. The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.

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[Middle English integrite, from Old French, from Latin integrits, soundness, from integer, whole, complete;]

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I guess politicians like Spitzer forgot that word after graduating Law School.